Zach Wahls

Zacharia "Zach" Wahls (15 July 1991-) was an American Democratic Party politician and gay rights activist from Iowa.

Biography
Zacharia Wahls was born in Marshfield, Wisconsin in 1991, the son of two lesbians who used artificial insemination to have him; in 2009, they married after same-sex marriage was legalized in Iowa, his home state. Wahls had a problematic school experience due to his mothers' sexual orientation, and he started a peer tutoring company during his freshman year in high school. In 2011, he became a gay rights activist in response to a proposed state constitutional convention to ban gay marriage in his state. In 2016, he was a delegate for Hillary Clinton at the 2016 presidential election, and, in 2018, he won the Democratic primary for the Iowa Senate 37th district.